RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
MAJOR EVENTS IN PRE REVOLUTION RUSSIA
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It forced Kerensky to surrender to the Bolsheviks.
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It secured Stalin as leader of Russia.
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It allowed Trotsky to negotiate peace with Germany.
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It forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate the throne.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Result: Abdication of the Tsar and the end of nearly 500 years of autocratic rule in Russia.
Detailed explanation-2: -When riots broke out in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) on March 8, 1917, Nicholas instructed the city commandant to take firm measures and sent troops to restore order. It was too late. The government resigned, and the Duma, supported by the army, called on the emperor to abdicate.
Detailed explanation-3: -In March 1917, the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. Nicholas and his family were first held at the Czarskoye Selo palace, then in the Yekaterinburg palace near Tobolsk.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1917, two revolutions swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and setting into motion political and social changes that would lead to the eventual formation of the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-5: -On 27 February O.S. (12 March N.S.) the forces of the capital’s garrison sided with the revolutionaries. Three days later Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, ending Romanov dynastic rule and the Russian Empire. The Russian Provisional Government under Prince Georgy Lvov replaced the Council of Ministers of Russia.